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Good morning

I'm getting a blocking message that I've never encountered before when launching an OS deployment: It's strange, if we get here, it means a network connection has been established...

Any idea what's going on?
Thanks in advance

Tom

Hi Thomas,

yes, that can be confusing. The initial download uses either the IPXE network driver (if you're using ipxe.efi) or the UEFI card driver (if you're using snp.efi). Once WinPE is downloaded, it boots, and once started, the Windows driver is used.
In this case, there must be a non-generic driver that needs to be integrated into WinPE.
Another possible scenario is that the installation is done on a laptop with a USB dock, and an IP address has been reserved on the MAC address. However, at boot, the dock's MAC address is used, while afterwards, the USB passthrough MAC address (i.e., the machine's IP address) is sent.

Regards,

Denis

Hello.

No dock in this case, but thank you for the suggestion; I'll look into a driver.
I might come back to this topic regarding the WinPE integration method...

Have a good day.

Well, it was child's play to integrate the drivers with the WAPT interface.

Thanks, I'm closing this!

Tom